The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1887-06-09

The old veterans regard Cleyeland's
{! presence at their encampment at st.
Lonis, as an insult which, when the
time comes, they will take occasion to
pflnRrlY Tesept. Cleveland, as John
Sherman recently expressed, holds his
place by fraud, murder, theft, forgery
and perjury. He is, by virtue of his
office, president of "a nation which
they died to save" land which he and
his accOmplices tried to assassinate, but
he is not the representative of the old
soldiers, and while they respect the
president, they very properly detest a
man who, in the hour of his country's
peril, was too cowardly and disloyal to
raise hand i'll its defense. And such
man no true soldier can ever respect,
no matter now high he may have been
elevated by accident supplemented by
crime. Lest the Gazette might be mis-
understood it will state again that
Cleveland's presence at an old soldiers
reunion IS an insult to loyalty, an out
rage on decency.-EItrdcts frQ,a an
article IN Sundays 1Jilene Qaxstts.
The person who penned the above
lines it is safe to say never carried a
musket in the late war. Can he be
loyal when he trys to stir up strife aud
contention, that prince of deInagogues
and tool of mOnopolies John Sherman
is quoted, did John Sherman carry a
musket in the late war? Grant and
Cleveland both vetoed pension bills, if
one made mistake the other did also.
Grant was the commander in chief of
our armies when rebellion was crushed.
His almost dying words were for peace.
Sherman truly said that Cleveland
holds his place by fraud, murder, theft,
forgery and perjury, these vicious
social monsters were controlling our
government and the people elected
Grover Cleveland to stamp them out,
and he is doing it to. The skulkers who
stayed at home, to-day are bowling the
loudest about loyalty and are deserving
of being branded as rebels and traitors.
The man who writes or talks in favor
of one portion of our Union, hating and
despising the other, and who trys to
reopen the old wounds, is traitor and
not one drop of loyal blood runs
in his veins. He is simply hunger
ing and thirsting after Office for
himself or his friends and cares nothing
for the preservation of our Union, and
is bowling to catch G.. A. r. votes or
influence, but the majority of the "old
soldiers have no use for such senti-
ments. If we have no Union, if we are
not again united country and people,
then the blood spilled in the late war
was for naught. But thank God the
old soldiers are not the class of men
that many writers would have us believe
they are. The men who carried the
musket is as far above the home bowler,
as the brave man is above the skulker
who is trying to use the soldiers record
as though it was his own.
VIII the writer in the Gazette please
explain what particular claim he has to
shout loyalty. The man who obeys the
laws of his country is always loyal, the
man who violates them, rebel. Don't
endeavor to hold up the bleeding forms
of those who died in the defense of
the Union, if you failed to stand by
their sides in the hour of danger, what
bravery it takes to pick up an arm shot |
off of some other man 25 years ago,
what brass and unadulterated cheek, to |
use it for selfish ends, what an insult to |
loyalty. Revere and honor our brave
Union boys who conquered secession
and preserved our Union. But let up
Oh using their record to further pelsonal
Or party ambition. 1t is being tried
With vengence to-day, it is the dying
gasp, not of loyal hearts, but of politi-
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